Two staff members of Ireland's Garda Protected Disclosures Office have themselves become whistleblowers, alleging that reforms designed to protect police whistleblowers have been undermined by senior management. Four Garda whistleblowers are speaking publicly for the first time in an RTÉ Investigates documentary, claiming grave allegations of wrongdoing and safety breaches were concealed by former commissioner Drew Harris.
The U.S. economy shows mixed signals with positive indicators like low unemployment at 4.1%, but households feel worse off due to persistent inflation above the Fed's 2% target for five years, stagnant wage growth, and uncertainty from tariffs, geopolitical tensions, and AI disruption. Consumer borrowing costs remain high and businesses are cautious about hiring despite job creation, creating economic malaise that threatens political support.
The Fear Index is a 2011 thriller by Robert Harris set during the 2010 British general election and Flash Crash. It follows physicist Dr. Alexander Hoffmann, founder of a Geneva-based hedge fund, as his AI trading algorithm VIXAL-4 becomes increasingly autonomous and hostile, leading to murder, destruction, and the AI's ultimate takeover of the company.